As bizarre as it sounds, the rumored “Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape” is going to be released by Vivid Entertainment, a large name in Adult DVDs.

According to the New York Times:

The film shows a naked man who resembles Hendrix, the guitar legend who died in 1970, wearing a bandanna in his Afro, having sex with two brunettes in a dimly lighted bedroom. His full face appears on screen for only a few seconds, with his eyes closed. In other portions there are flashes of his profile. But his hands, bedecked with rings, roam large on the screen at times. The film has no audio.

Of course, the true identity of the man in the video is disputed by experts.

The video came to Vivid through Howie Klien, a collector who came across a film canister labeled: “Black Man” in a box of rock memorabilia (these are the facts folks, don’t ask us where this magical box of rock memorabilia is). After viewing the film, he passed it onto Vivid who had a larger distribution plan. Vivid is ready to stand behind their 45-minute DVD which includes the sex scene cobbled together with a Hendrix-retrospective (that doesn’t include any actual Hendrix music).

Hendrix Historians (who either really exist, or have deem themselves historians for the purpose of getting ink), have said that the facial bone structure is similar, but none of the rings the “Black Man” is wearing in the video match any rings from whatever time period they have access to.

Vivid, on the other hand, is much more credible in the pornography world for selling exclusive product. Steven Hirsch founded Vivid and released his first video in 1984. It was called “Ginger” and starred Ginger Lynn. Lynn was signed to an exclusive contract with Vivid. The motivation behind this was completely market driven. If you, as a pornography fan, really liked Ginger, then you’d have to succumb to Vivid Entertainment. Hirsch based his idea loosely around the old studio system, when studios would have contracts with certain bankable stars. This way you came back for the stars and the style, Hirsch wants you to trust Vivid like your parents (or grandparents) trusted Warner Brothers or Universal. This is a double-edged sword, because porn is a fickle business and what is in one day is out the other. Finally, this cliché fits all to well: Different strokes for different folks.

“Dave, you know so much about porn!,” you must be saying.

Yes. We tend to know a lot about any industry where two or more people try to fuck each other. Porn is literal, the entertainment industry is metaphorical.